Overview
Space Science
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) remote sensing technology work best when you don’t have to wait for the data. Our LIDAR technology has been used on heritage programs like CALIPSO and now on new technologies that enable new scientific discoveries.
Ever wondered how clouds, winds, and aerosols interact? We’re helping to find out by extending the LIDAR technology we’ve been developing since 2002. Our Optical Autocovariance Wind LIDAR (OAWL) has flown on NASA-sponsored test flights to push the system closer to a space-based mission. A NASA-funded research and development contract is helping us build on those capabilities by providing simultaneous measurement of winds and aerosol properties.
The High-spectral Resolution LIDAR for Aerosols Winds and Clouds using OAWL (HAWC-OAWL) measures two different components of vector wind fields by using two lasers and two telescopes pointing in two directions at the same time. The system is designed to fly on NASA aircraft to provide NASA scientists with wind and aerosol data to study the impacts of aerosol (including pollution, dust, and smoke transport) on the Earth's energy and water cycles, air quality, and climate.
By leveraging over 50 years of remote sensing expertise for NASA, NOAA, DoD, and commercial companies, our Methane Monitor uses laser-illumination remote-sensing techniques to identify methane emissions on the ground from a fixed-wing aircraft. It's a lower cost, real-time, precise method of monitoring leaks that notifies facility operators immediately of large emission sources and provides full reports within hours of the end of the flight.
- Active sensing with lasers: immune to solar intensity and background temperature with real time results
- Plume imaging: 300-meter-wide swaths and swath-to-swath image stitching show the plume shape and allow ready identification of the source
- Fixed-wing aircraft: 3,300 ft. above ground at 126 mph air speed can survey 150-200 square miles per day
Learn about our heritage in developing new LIDAR technologies for programs like CALIPSO.
Tactical Missions
When you want to see exactly what’s going on in a battlespace or enemy area, we provide real-time 3D LIDAR systems for tactical military and intelligence/surveillance missions. Our TotalSight™ Flash LIDAR gives you data in real-time. No more waiting in the dark.
You enjoy a full-motion 3-D imaging system that gives you “total sight” of the operational area of regard. Because our systems fuse and downlink multi-spectral video in real time with 3-D LIDAR data, you get unsurpassed informational awareness. Any of our systems can be tailored to satisfy a wide range of mission objectives and customized for a variety of platforms.
Our TotalSight™ Flash LIDAR has flown on both rotary and fixed wing aircraft and can also be flown on unmanned aerial vehicles.
Our non-conventional imaging techniques used for active remote sensing push the boundaries of performance.
- Real-time 3-D imagery to easily manipulate and share on the move
- The ability to “see over the next hill” in real time, with true geolocation precision and easily manipulated images — a game changer for operational forces
- Increased situational awareness for mission planning and execution
- Day/night fused 3-D imagery for hazard detection, identification and avoidance for helicopter flight support, precision tactical analysis and damage assessment
- Data rates compatible with existing RF downlinks
The BAE Systems LIDAR payload for the ScanEagle® UAV fuses context camera imagery with LIDAR array imagery at up to 20 frames per second for high point density and image resolution.
Our real-time, full-motion color Flash 3D LIDAR imaging system provides warfighters and first responders critical geolocation information that can be easily viewed, analyzed, and shared while on the move.